Tornado, Nuckolls
- When
- May 4, 3:00 PM CST
- Where
- Nuckolls County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 12.8 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 40.000, -98.020
Tornadoes in Nebraska, May 4, 1959
8 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 1
- Property damage
- $65,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 8
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
8 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Hall
- When
- May 4, 3:00 PM CST
- Where
- Hall County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 18.2 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 40.780, -98.630
Tornado, Merrick
- When
- May 4, 3:30 PM CST
- Where
- Merrick County
- Rating
- F1
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 41.120, -98.020
Tornado, Nance
- When
- May 4, 4:15 PM CST
- Where
- Nance County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 9.8 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 41.470, -97.720
Tornado, Saunders
- When
- May 4, 4:30 PM CST
- Where
- Saunders County
- Rating
- F1
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 41.150, -96.900
Tornado, Polk
- When
- May 4, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Polk County
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 41.080, -97.780
Tornado, Nance
- When
- May 4, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Nance County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 41.480, -97.720
Tornado, Gage
- When
- May 4, 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- Gage County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 9.5 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 40.120, -96.670
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, May 4, 1959
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, May 4, 1959
- Tornadoes in Iowa, May 4, 1959
- Tornadoes in Wisconsin, May 4, 1959
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, May 4, 1959
- Tornado in Missouri, May 4, 1959
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 4, 1959
- Damaging Wind in Colorado, May 4, 1959
- Tornado in South Dakota, May 4, 1959
More
Every storm in Nebraska in 1959Every state in 1959This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Nebraska, 1959
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10069429, 10069430, 10069431, 10069432, 10069433, 10069434, 10069435, 10069436.